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Jarvis Cocker, the cursed poet of Britpop: ‘The past is a lie. We all have a completely false official autobiography’
The myopic boy of 1990s English pop music has written a memoir that’s like one of his songs. At 60, the Pulp frontman recounts his dreams of greatness, his ambition, his lack of willpower… and his descent into hell